HR Technology
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HRO Market Leaders
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It’s interesting that only several vendors hold a large majority of the market share in the HRO world – almost an 80/20 rule. If you look at the top 3 (Hewitt, Accenture and ADP) you are probably getting close to…
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HRO – Innovation or Best Practices?
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There is a lot of debate when companies enter into HRO contracts about how much best practice a HRO vendor can bring to the table. There is also much conversation around how much innovation and thought leadership the same HRO…
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How Did They Get Here – Hewitt Associates
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The other day I was trying to remember what happened to a company in the benefits administration space I used to deal with quite regularly. Of course, as been happening with increasing regularity, it had been acquired some years ago…
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Cedar Crestone HCM Survey 2006
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Cedar recently released their 2006 HCM survey with some interesting results and interpretations. I’m not going to regurgitate their findings, but here are a few items I though worth thinking about. Five applications cause operating income growth among publicly traded…
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Changing the Game: Managing the HR Technology Suite
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I’ve always been an advocate of getting the best in point solutions and integrating everything together on the back end. This has always meant SAP or PeopleSoft for the HRMS, add a recruiting vendor and a talent suite, wrap around…
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Hewitt’s Financial Results – What Do They Mean?
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Hewitt’s very public financial difficulties continue today, days after announcing quarter-end September 30, 2006 financial results. It is not my intention to single out Hewitt by writing about them again. Rather, as the recognized leader in HRO, Hewitt can be…
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SOA: SAP versus Oracle
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SAP and Oracle have been taking different approaches to service oriented architecture (SOA) and this article by Mark Brunelli pinpoints some of those differences: Experts point out that Oracle is focusing its SOA efforts on building an open infrastructure with…
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The Future of UI
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One of the reasons I write so much about the user interface (UI), portals and SOA is that I believe HR technology’s future is very much about how we engage and increase end user adoption. In an increasingly dispersed global…
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Melting pot or Salad bowl part 2
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Are there times your technology suite should look like a salad bowl? Absolutely yes. First of all, depending on your particular sourcing strategy, you might actually want your suite to be made from disparate technology vendors. If you choose a…
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Melting pot or Salad bowl part 1
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When I went to college, the big thing in the interpretation of American ethic culture was a debate about a melting pot or a salad bowl. In honesty, they are nice images – in a melting pot, all ethnicities represented…
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Hewitt’s Lessons Learned
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From time to time companies exhibit moments of organizational maturity not often enough seen in the market. This week’s moment comes to us courtesy of Hewitt Associates’ Mike Wright, global HRO sales co-leader, during his presentation last month at the…
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Sleepless Nights in HR Part 1
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I got an e-mail from HR.com (actually I get several spams a day) advertising one of their conferences. In this particular one, they posed the question “What keeps you up at night?” Their responses for the most part made me…
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ADP Acquires Virtual Edge Talent Acquisition
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In a great move by ADP, they finally got their hands on a great talent acquisition system. Truthfully, they have been on the hunt for several years, but the deals seemed to keep falling through. This time though, ADP struck…
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Changing the Game: SOA and Business Intelligence
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is not just an enabler of business process and data integration. It allows your business intelligence engine to function as a single entity rather than multiple components. Historically, you’ve always had a reporting/query tool, an OLAP…
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Changing the Game: SOA and Business Process
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Similar to the enablement of applications to the web in the late 90’s, service oriented architecture (SOA) is a major paradigm shift in how we do and think about business processes and the data that supports it. SOA is really…
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100% Claims Audits Revisited
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Nearly one year ago, Double Dubs graciously asked me to be a regular contributor on this most amazing blog of his. I think all of us can agree that what he has built here is impressive. He has created a…
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Shaping the Workforce through Business Intelligence
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I’ve previously defined HR strategy as any direction that “shapes the workforce.” Whether this is creating an employer brand that influences they type of people you recruit, creating talent policies that allow your employees to excel, or nurturing a culture…
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ERP – Vendor Updates
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I did a thing back in August about SAP versus PeopleSoft. (Parts 1 and 2) I really should have done an SAP versus Oracle. To be honest, I have no intention of doing in depth comparisons of technology or functionality…
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Traditional Outsourcers – Vendor Updates
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Outsourcers: This is a rather boring category as there are only 2 traditional outsourcers worth mentioning. However, the last several years have been interesting for both of them, but I’ll back up an entire decade since many people I talk…
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A Technological Approach to Claims Audit
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The last two weeks I wrote about the ineffectiveness of traditional claims audit and the inherent conflict of interest some companies face when they perform such audits. This week I’d like to introduce a company that brings a different approach…